What is the value of united front work? The reason someone is recruited and valued is because they have the ability to influence the outcome of events, or even disrupt established arrangements. For example, Dad wants to take the whole family fishing, and if the only brother who can drive doesn’t go, the plan can’t be carried out. So Dad might use pocket money to persuade him; if the sister has access to Dad’s and Aunt Wang’s chat records, she can create trouble, and thus also be soothed and bought off. Conversely, if you neither can drive nor have any means to threaten or influence the situation, you lack this "united front value," and therefore even if you don’t want to go, you have no bargaining capital, and you might even be forced to do so.